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☆ Millennial Transformed Car-Repair Shop Into Tiny Triangular Dream Home
  + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Maria Noyen | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
Richard Brown converted a tiny, triangular car-repair shop into a home for himself and his fiancée. But Brown said it's the perfect size and is now set up to be their dream work-from-home space. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Case in point: a triangle-shaped former car-repair shop in London that architect Richard Brown and his fiancée bought for over £200,000, or around $250,000. They then converted the 430-square-foot space into a livable home via a $127,000 renovation, creative thinking, and a lot of elbow grease.
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☆ Dubai jet suit race: Real-life ‘superheroes’ take to the sky in inaugural event
  + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Rebecca Cairns | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +7 min
Against a backdrop of skyscrapers and super yachts, the airborne athletes competed in the inaugural Jet Suit Race Series, an event organized by the Dubai Sports Council and Gravity Industries, the manufacturers of the jet suit. Browning compares the 1,700-horsepower jet suit to “the power of a Bugatti Veyron” sports car in a 30-kilogram (66-pound) backpack. The jet suit uses aviation fuel or diesel, and can go at speeds of up to 136 kilometers per hour (85 miles per hour), Browning’s own record. In 2020, there was a fatal jetpack accident in Dubai, though it was not a Gravity suit.) Test pilots take off in Gravity Industries jet suits ahead of the inaugural race, in Dubai in February 2024.
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☆ Irish government staff advised to remove TikTok from work devices
  + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
DUBLIN, April 21 (Reuters) - The state body responsible for advising the Irish government on cyber security recommended on Friday that staff at government departments and state agencies not use Chinese-owned video app TikTok on official devices. A number of Western countries including Britain, the U.S. and other European Union member states have barred TikTok over security concerns. The issue here rather is what we can’t rule out is happening," NCSC director Richard Browne told national broadcaster RTE. TikTok runs a number of its European operations from Dublin, including data privacy and protection. It announced last month that it would open a second data centre in Ireland and reduce the transfer of data outside of the EU.
☆ This scientist was irked by the phrase 'hella' big — so he created 2 new units of measurement
  + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +13 min
Metric measurements — also known as the International System of Units, or SI — are managed by a formal international organization. The prefixes Brown came up with are ronna and ronto for 1027 and 10-27 and quetta and quecto for 1030 and 10-30. In fact, SI units used to be based on actual, real-life physical artifacts. "If everyone sticks to SI prefixes," Brown says, "you don't have to go on Wikipedia to find out how long a light-year is or the power in 1 jansky." Pražák proposed sticking to Greek words and letters.
☆ GOP-controlled Ohio Legislature passes election bill to require photo ID at the polls
  + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Zoë Richards | Zoë Richards Is The Evening Politics Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +2 min
Mike DeWine a GOP-backed bill Thursday that would require voters to show photo ID at the polls and allow fewer days to request absentee ballots or vote early in person. The measure, which would replace a state law that lets voters present other documents on Election Day, such as utility bills or bank statements, was passed by the House in a 55-32 vote. The bill would also eliminate in-person early voting on the eve of Election Day and trim the amount of time voters can request and submit absentee ballots. State Rep. Richard Brown, a Democrat, said the bill headed to DeWine's desk had “many troublesome provisions,” taking particular issue with the removal of early-in person voting on the day before Election Day. Months later, Texas adopted a sweeping election law that added a new ID requirement for absentee voters and banned drive-thru and overnight early voting.
☆ New measures for size, as world’s people surpass 8 billion
  + stars: | 2022-11-19 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +3 min
And one British scientist led the push Friday to incorporate bold new, tongue-twisting prefixes on the gigantic and even the minuscule scale. There’s the gargantuan “ronna” (that’s 27 zeros after the one) and its big brother the “quetta” — (that’s 30 zeros). Their ant-sized counterparts are the “ronto” (27 zeros after the decimal point), and the “quecto” (with 30 zeros after the decimal point) -- representing the smaller numbers needed for quantum science and particle physics. The conference, which takes place every four years in France, is the supreme authority of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. (We) need new words as things expand,” Brown said.
☆ Why it's taken nearly 100 years to have jet packs
  + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Daniel Gessner | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
So why has it taken so long to develop jet packs that can reach 1,200 feet and fly up to 10 minutes? Why has it taken almost a century for us to see real jet packs? Narrator: The arrival of small but powerful jet engines designed for model aircraft brought back an interest in the possibilities of jet packs. Less than 10 years later, companies like Gravity Industries have demonstrated what modern microturbine-powered jet packs are capable of. But it's not far-fetched to think that jet packs like Gravity's could be used for more than just recreation.
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